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Genus TRIGENA Dyar. 



TRIGENA AMAROSA, new species. 



Dark gray, base of thorax and base of abdomen with tufts of 

 broadly spatulate brown scales. Fore wing gray, paler and more 

 whitish through the middle of the wing, tinged with rusty brown in 

 the apical region; an inner curved black line, nearer the base on inner 

 margin than on cost a, edged on both sides with rusty brown; the wins? 

 is dusted with rusty brown and with faint gray stride, the latter 

 becoming blackish and distinct subterminally, forming an irregular 

 line, which broadens into a reticulated area near the costa; a distinct 

 but irregular median line below the cell, edged with rusty brown. 

 Hind wing white, translucent, not reticulate, but dusted with gray 

 broadly on inner margin. Expanse, 37 mm. 



One male, Cuernavaca, Mexico, November, L906 (\Y. Schaus). 



Type.— Cat. No. 13044, U.S.N. M. 



Similar in pattern of markings to Trigena parilis Schaus from 

 Brazil, but of a very different color. 



Genus ARBELA Moore." 

 ARBELA NAIS Druce. 



Arbela nais Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep. lid., vol. 2, 1898, p. 450. 

 Described from Costa Rica. I have a specimen from Cuernavaca. 

 Mexico, July, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



Family FY KALI O.K. 

 Genus STENOPHYES Lederer. 



STENOPHYES DISPARILIS, new species. 



White, translucent ; fore wing of the male greatly elongated, of the 

 female much less so, but with pointed apex. Fore wing with four 

 dark brown bands, the first three near together on the basal half of 

 the wing, first and third broad, second narrow and oblique in reverse 

 direction; outer line oblique from outer fourth of costa toward anal 

 angle, which it does not reach, but is reflected to discal mark and from 

 there to inner margin at middle; discal mark large, quadrate, Idled 

 in with rusty brown; a marginal brown band which sends in a spur 

 to outer line at interspace 5 and (land at anal angle. Hind wing with 

 two straight broad brown bands and the margin brown, the edges of 

 these markings a little irregular. Expanse, male, 27 mm.: female. 

 22 mm. 



aArbela Moore, 1879, is preoccupied by Arbela Stal, ]865. Likewise HollaiVdia 

 Karsch, 1896, is preoccupied by Hollandia Butler, 1892. Some other name may be 

 available, so I do not propose a substitute at present. 



